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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Despite all of the time, money, and resources devoted to leadership development, the hard truth is that many leadership development programs often fail. In this article, I’ll explore the reasons for mediocre outcomes and provide some insights into how you can improve program effectiveness. The problem isn’t the training itself.

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

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Assuming you’ve adequately onboarded all your sales reps—instructing them on product knowledge, sales process, market dynamics and competitors, technology usage, industry regulations, and so on—they should be well-prepared for the dynamic world of life science sales. Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

Our education system had inculcated the belief that “learning” is all about gaining information and knowledge and being able to remember that long enough to answer exam questions. So, a loop of training followed by application of the knowledge and processes learnt became the norm. People should start to do things differently.